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To: Dale Baker who wrote (9161)	1/17/2006 11:06:09 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541795

What a guy that Scalia is: ''If the term `legitimate medical purpose' has any meaning, it surely excludes the prescription of drugs to produce death,'' he wrote. So no matter how much someone is suffering, don't kill them if they ask you, or beg you. We can put animals out of their misery, but not people. Whoo yeah- I just love that man's religion. He's a poster child for compassion, that one.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (9161)	1/17/2006 11:24:19 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 541795

Scalia said the court's ruling ''is perhaps driven by a feeling that the subject of assisted suicide is none of the federal government's business. It is easy to sympathize with that position.'' If it's so easy, why didn't he do it? Guess I'll have to read the whole thing.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (9161)	1/17/2006 8:02:16 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541795

I think I disagree with all of the justices on this one. They all seem to think the feds have the constitutional power to control the use of drugs within a state. If you accept that power I'd have to join in with those who voted to strike down the law. I haven't looked at it in nearly the detail that the court has but it seems to me the law gives the feds the authority. However I don't see how the feds constitutionally have the power to pass the law in the first place. What part of the constitution gives the feds the power to control intrastate use of drugs? Tim